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Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern

Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> Fri, 03 September 2010 12:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern
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On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 02:56 -0400, John Tamplin wrote:


> Unless the final spec makes FF4.0 (and I don't know how much lead time
> it would take to get it in), then it is likely to exist there for some
> non-trivial period of time.  

For those that aren't aware, I'm working with the Mozilla Websockets
team. And with that hat on I can say FF is unlikely to deploy -76 in FF
4 - except perhaps under a clearly for-experiment-only namespace which
is subject to breakage at any time.

That being said, I'd love to get the specification to a state where we
could ship something based on draft-ietf-* with some confidence that at
least the basics were stable. We've got some work to do.

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